Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [coord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes there are combinations and variations on the above , such as requests for part payments or for time to pay . |
| 2 | Work progressed on guidelines for house purchasers and on methods of procurement for housing association dwellings . |
| 3 | Miners staged a two-hour strike on Nov. 5 to lend weight to their demands for pay increases and in protest against the effects of the economic reforms . |
| 4 | The occurrence of convulsions carried risks of bone fractures and of other injuries , but ingenious psychiatrists encouraged the development of standardized preparations of curare which could be used clinically to prevent the muscular component of the electrically-induced seizures . |
| 5 | On the whole it is not the present fashion for public companies to complicate their capital structures by having a large number of share classes — though much ingenuity is displayed in devising the most attractive methods of marketing issues and in creating types of company securities , other than shares but with rights to convert into shares . |
| 6 | Electronic calculators can be produced at such a low cost that manufacturers of slide rules and of electro-mechanical calculators have completely lost their markets . |
| 7 | Second , they put themselves on the defensive by shying away from subjects like food scares and by protecting the rogues within their industry . |
| 8 | First , there are surface impacts from space vehicles and from meteorites . |
| 9 | We have already referred to the role of organic acids in chemical weathering , the anions of which may be important in the removal of metal cations from silicate minerals and in the dissolution of carbonates . |
| 10 | Several species of petrels including all-white snow petrels Pagadroma nivea , mottled pintado petrels Daption capensis and tiny Wilson 's storm petrels Oceanites oceanica breed in cavities on scree slopes and under rocks . |
| 11 | The Craigie Mains stud prospered and James Kilpatrick learned the skills of breeding horses and of preparing them to look their best in the highly competitive show ring . |
| 12 | The screen displayed columns of figures against groups of code letters and from time to time Francis referred to these , scrolling the display on or back . |
| 13 | The organisation has campaigned for oil tankers to be equiped with double hulls to minimise dangers of oil spills and for them to avoid such environmentally sensitive areas such as the Shetland isles . |
| 14 | These are a few of the questions debated by thoughtful voters at supermarket check-out points , in dentists ' waiting rooms and factory canteens , on nature trails , in the linoleum-infested parlours of spirit mediums and in the halls of the mighty . |
| 15 | The police are scattered around the area with several pairs of squad cars and at least three Black Marias . |
| 16 | August and September are times of peak changes and of arrivals and departures . |
| 17 | In particular , it was contrary to articles 7 , 52 and 221 in as much as it created a complete barrier to freedom of establishment in the United Kingdom for individuals as owners and operators of fishing vessels and as directors and shareholders of companies owning or operating such vessels . |
| 18 | However , since the court held that a requirement that the crew reside on shore in the member state in question was not related to the aim of the quota system , no reason can be seen which might induce the court to take the view that residence and domicile requirements imposed on all owners and operators of fishing vessels and on 75 per cent . |
| 19 | Foremen are promoted from the ranks of production workers and as pivotal intermediaries they have quasi-managerial status . |
| 20 | Particular reforming efforts have been made in the areas of welfare services and of financial provision . |
| 21 | The Jamtlands Folk Bank was approached by the tax authorities for details of the balances of account holders and of interest receipts . |
| 22 | But in his analyses of kinship relations or of cooking , for example , Lévi-Strauss 's approach is based entirely on the assumption that they are systems which are structured like a language ; that is to say , that their individual elements have meaning only in so far as they are part of an overall system . |
| 23 | Inevitably the analysis is relatively crude since it is difficult to gather data about the financial circumstances of dementia sufferers or about the total amount of care provided for them in the community . |
| 24 | Such Communist opposition that existed , as among the London busmen in the Transport and General Workers , had been marginalized by the post 1926 attempts to remove Communists from trade unions and from trades councils . |
| 25 | Buy seed potatoes from garden centres or by mail order . |
| 26 | A period of under-provision over a number of years is likely to be reflected on the shelves in subject gaps or in the poor physical condition of stock . |
| 27 | Many spent decades in labour camps or in internal exile . |
| 28 | The US-led group insisted on a specific policy commitment to cut internal support for agriculture , to reduce barriers to farm imports and to phase out extra subsidies . |
| 29 | A Hungarian-French treaty of friendship and concord signed on Sept. 11 laid down the terms of co-operation between the two countries on minority issues and on Hungary 's desire for full membership of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 30 | His present celebrity is a fairly recent phenomenon , and he insists that it has not really affected him , although he acknowledges that his appearances on television shows and in magazine profiles have somewhat robbed him of the anonymity which still clings to his ‘ invisible ’ friend , Cartier-Bresson . |